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Gary King lived up to his surname capturing his first MENA Tour title in just his fourth event. King birdied the first extra hole to win the MENA Golf Tour’s Ascorp Abu Dhabi Golf Citizen Open at Saadiyat Beach Golf Club. A good three shots in front overnight, the Englishman closed with a level-par 72 to force a playoff with his compatriot and playing partner James Allan, who shot a 69, on nine under, thanks to a monstrous putt he holed for birdie from 35 yards on the final hole. Both the players ...

Four-time European Team star Graeme McDowell says Solheim Cup combatants should move on and get over last week’s controversy. However the golf world remains divided over the events when American rookie Alison Lee wrongly thought she had been conceded a two-foot putt. The incident quickly turned ‘bitchy’ and has since led to Sweden’s Suzann Pettersen issuing an apology saying, in part, she was ‘truly sorry’ it overshadowed the Solheim Cup in Germany. McDowell is in Germany this week competing in the Bavarian city of Bad Griesbach, and the ...

Scotland’s top-ranked Scot Martin Warren has returned to competition after a month’s break determined to end his year receiving a standard white envelope bearing a Masters logo and postmarked – Augusta, GA. Warren has played competitively since finishing mid-field in the defence of his Made In Denmark title. But then the current World No. 56 hasn’t been idle enjoying time with his young family but also playing social games at Loch Lomond and Western Gailes. Warren also is lying 16th on the Race to Dubai and clearly headed for his best finish in a decade on the Tour after a career ...

Former US Open Champion Graeme McDowell has vowed to put a disappointing 2015 season behind him and concentrate on starting his Ryder Cup selection campaign and also his 2016 season here at this week’s Porsche European Open. McDowell has contested six times in the past but with the event not having been staged since 2009. However after finishing a very poor 165th in the FedEx Cup the 36 year old is looking to finally turn around an indifferent year highlighted by the very first event of ...

Visiting American has already been spoilt in just a handful of days on his first visit to Germany. First it was a German  beer on Monday in Munich and then today, and on the eve of the Porsche European Open, the current World No. 42 got to take one of the sponsors products for a test drive on the autobahn. “There’s no way I could drive this car on the freeways back home in the States,” he joked. “So it was great to be able to take the Porsche for a drive on the autobahn this ...

While David Drysdale gets used to walking with crutches he’s quietly hopeful of contesting next week’s lucrative Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The popular Scot sustained a three centimetre tear in the calf muscle of his right leg when walking up the slope of a bunker at the first hole to start his third round in last week’s 72nd Italian Open at Monza. The 40-year old said at the time the pain was so intense he felt he had been shot in the leg. Drysdale underwent an MRI on his leg in Edinburgh on Monday and yesterday (TUES) visited leading Scottish physiotherapist, Stuart Barton who spent a dozen years as physio for the Scotland rugby lead. Under Barton’s guidance, Drysdale underwent the first of a series of intensive physio sessions ...

Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg is the European Tour’s newest champion in capturing last week’s 72nd Italian Open. However the Swede is also the Tour’s equal top-ranked ‘Tortoise’ after being fined £2,000 for slow play last week at Monza. It means Karlberg who won £181,054 in defeating Martin Kaymer in a play-off has had to hand back £2,000 to the Tour. Karlberg was fined for slow play during the first round at Monza and now joins Paul Peterson and Danny Willett atop ...